The 79 Day Life of New Coke
In the spring of 1985, Coca-Cola made one of the boldest—and most infamous—moves in advertising history. After nearly a century of selling essentially the same
Listen to The Silence
“You can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own.” – Chaim Potok
Brothers in Arms
Direct U.S. military involvement in Vietnam escalated dramatically following the Gulf of Tonkin incident in August 1964, when reported confrontations between North Vietnamese patrol boats
World’s Largest Teapot
One summer morning, we bought the last three “World’s Largest Teapot” postcards from Chaney’s Bait, the gas station/mini-mart across the street (in the meantime, we
Love Enacts A Kind Of Vigilant Perception
“Love has something to do with the notion of being seen — the opposite of invisibility. The invisible, the unwitnessed, the unacknowledged, the isolated, the
Death Race: The 1976 Arcade Game That Started a Moral Panic
Long before Mortal Kombat, Doom, or Grand Theft Auto became lightning rods in debates over video game violence, there was Death Race. Released by the